Before the Apollo missions, there were the Mercury missions. Astronauts had to learn to walk before they could run. They had to be sure they could get into orbit, then back to Earth safely. They had ...

It’s coming up 50 years since mankind last set foot on the Moon. In perhaps the most privileged activity ever available to our species, just 12 human beings have done it, the first being Neil ...

AUSTIN, TX (KTRK) -- He was the last man to ever leave footprints on the moon, and this week Captain Gene Cernan premieres a new documentary about this personal journey at the South by Southwest Film ...

(WSPA) – The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan has died, according to NASA. NASA tweeted out the sad message this afternoon. Cernan was a Captain in the U.S. Navy and flew three times in space ...

Folks, a reminder that this Friday, May 17, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, will speak at this year’s Kurt Debus Award Dinner sponsored by the National Space Club ...

Apollo 17 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Dec. 7, 1972. This historic lunar mission serves as the most recent moon landing and was the first time a trained geologist walked on the moon, per ...

HOUSTON -- Funeral services are today for former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last person to have walked on the moon. Cernan's family says the funeral will be at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston ...

Eugene A. Cernan, the last astronaut to leave his footprints on the surface of the moon, has died, NASA said Monday. He was 82. “We are saddened by the loss of retired NASA astronaut Gene Cernan, the ...

Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82 of "ongoing health issues," his family confirmed. Cernan was one of 14 astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. He left his ...

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Cernan flew in space three times, took the second American spacewalk, and was just as thrilled to walk on the moon as if he had been the first to... The last person to leave footprints on the moon has ...